You will likely feel better at the end of any well-guided gentle yoga class that takes individual differences and needs into account. However, you will get the most out of yoga if you practice regularly. You might wonder, “How can I find enough time?” The best type of yoga
What is Resilience? Resilience is the ability to return to your center, to neutral, no matter what is happening around you, no matter what has been triggered by life happening. Do you ever feel like that dried up old rubber band that can’t return to its resting position, but when
Or is Gentle Yoga “too easy” to achieve that result? And what does it even mean, that a style or experience of yoga can be transformational? What transforms? What changes? How Change Happens Transformation can happen on a number of levels because we are multidimensional beings. Change can occur on
True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice. Martin Luther King, Jr. This is one of my favorite Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes. The yoga perspective on social justice is essentially that we are not actually separate from each other. We
Dynamic Gentle Yoga™ (DGY) is a method of guiding and instructing yoga that evolved over the 35+ years I taught yoga and trained new yoga teachers at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health*. DGY is built on a strong foundation of Kripalu Yoga and has three main characteristics: slow,
Some of my favorite outdoor activities often make it easier for me to stay relaxed about life. This is the simplest here in the northeast in the summer, although, when we have had a good snow, I can enjoy cross-country skiing. Whatever the season, living in-the-day, living in-the-present is still
Can you really make a yoga class work for everyone? How do you make it safe? Safe for those nursing injuries? Safe for those with chronic conditions like high-blood pressure, asthma, arthritis? Challenges and limitations like stiff joints, rock-hard tight muscles, poor balance, obesity, dyslexia, or even hyper flexibility? As
If you are new to yoga, curious, or full of questions, you have come to the right place. Yoga is many things to many people. There is no yoga practice or yoga tradition that is right for everyone and no “right way” to do yoga that you have to fit
